... My mother is 87 years old. For the last year she has been coughing and spitting mucus. These coughing sounds seems to come from her chest. However, I took her to a pulmonary doctor, and from various tests it was concluded that her lungs were clear. ... (0 replies)

... y right lung after radiation and surgery for esophageal cancer. I go to a pulmonologist and am on a nebulizer and Asmanax inhaler. But I still cough and bring up clearphlegm, loads of it, after eating. I find if I move around after eating and wait awhile before I drink anything sometimes that helps. ... (2 replies)

... Honey, you need to do what my sister does. She got a small baby syringe and a nasal wash. You can buy it at Walmart, I think. Its in powder form. At least the one she uses is. She mixes it with sterile water, sucks it up in the syringe, leans over her sink and sprays it up her nose. She says she gets all kinds of gunk out. I think the phlem and cough is due to sinus drainage... (12 replies)

... I was diagnosed with a chest infection a few weeks ago, the GP gave me antibiotics and it cleared it up, However now i have a contant clearing of throat and im coughing up clear sticky mucus. ... (0 replies)

... I highly recomend you see a pulmonologist. You can have an infection without having had a cold. When coughing up blood and phlem is a sign of something serious going on, be it TB, or MAC, or some other serious infection. ... (2 replies)

... See and ear nose and throat Doctor and get scoped to find out what is going on. They can usually tell if it is coming from sinus area. The other thing I would suggest is to just try an antihistamine over the counter and see if that helps. If it does then you are probably having allergy problems. Mucous is produced to protect the linings of the lung, nose and everywhere else so... (12 replies)

... isn't related to smoking that sounds very much like what you describe. A lady I knew about 20 years ago had something like this. She had regular treatments to clear out the phlegm from deep down to keep it under control. ... (12 replies)

... for over two years now i too have been constantly bringning up phlegm and gave up going to drs for it about 6 months ago as i had a chest exry which was clear and lots of antibiotics which have done nothing. ... (12 replies)

... nuses and in the morning is so thick I feel llike I am going to puke. it is so embarrassing for my poor teenaged daughter., I did used to smoke, but my lungs are clear on the xray, most of you sound like you need inhalers or tests, please try to push for more help. ... (12 replies)

... For the past couple of weeks I've been seeing blood in my cough - on and off- however this only happens in the morning as soon as I wake up. The phlegm itself is clear (not yellow or green or brown) mixed with blood - a lot in the first cough, then less in the second, and maybe just a little in the third, then no more. It was happening before but then it stopped, but I saw it... (1 replies)

... ring if anyone else has experienced the same symptoms, im 30years old and for several months my throat has felt that it is blocked with phlegm, when i managed to clear it, it sometimes has specks of blood in, i also have blood when i blow my nose, i dont have a cough, but am a smoker. ... (1 replies)

... ested chest. I been keeping an eye on it to see if maybe it was a bacterial infection in my lungs or sinus. Well the sinus has cleared up well, and the lungs are clear too, except in the morning. ... (9 replies)

... doctor. I felt fine earlier in the week, but just a night or two before the appointment, I started having the shortness of breath again. He told me my lungs are clear too, but tripled my Flovent dosage and told me to follow up in a week. ... (4 replies)